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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) A finality to mourning.
(b) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.
(c) A chrysalis for new life.
(d) A barrier against evil.

2. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(b) Both seem born of their surroundings.
(c) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(d) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.

3. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a painting.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) The idea of a house.
(d) Science.

4. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(b) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(c) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(d) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Lead to future discovery.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Create deceptions.
(d) Maintain secrecy.

6. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

7. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Overall structure.
(b) Verse.
(c) The isolated poetic image.
(d) Emotion.

8. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(b) The objects it contains.
(c) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(d) Its decor.

9. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Bosco.

10. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(b) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.
(c) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.
(d) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.

11. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Causality.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

12. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) The inhabiting function.
(b) The universe.
(c) Wonders of nature.
(d) Poetic fancy.

13. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.
(b) A poetic anomoly.
(c) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(d) A storm ravaging a house.

14. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Three, including cellar and attic.
(b) Two, including cellar and attic.
(c) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(d) Four, including cellar and attic.

15. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(b) Locks give negative energy to a house.
(c) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(d) Locked boxes defy discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

2. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

3. What is the ability to imagine?

4. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

5. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

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